Helen Keller
- Nationalité
- Suisse
- Année d'élection
- 2025
Fonction(s) actuelle(s)
- Full Professor of International and European Law at the University of Zurich
- Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Domaine(s) d’expertise
- Human Rights Law,
- Climate Law,
- International Environmental Law
Biographie
Prof. Dr. iur. Helen Keller, LL.M, is a professor of law at the University of Zurich. She was judge at the European Court of Human Rights form 2011 until 2020. She has written about friendly settlements before the ECtHR. From 2008 to 2011, Helen
Keller was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Fribourg in 2018 for her contribution to cross-fertilisation of doctrine and practice. In 2024, Helen Keller was honoured three times. In June, she received a nomination as part of the "75 Women in 75 Years of Council of Europe History" project, in October the University of Geneva awarded her the title of Dr honouris causa and in November she received the Robert Kennedy Prize. She was awarded the Grand Walther Hug Prize in 2025 for her scientific work. Since December 2020, she has served as a judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina and since 2025, she has been an associate member of the Institut de Droit international.
Publications sélectionnées
- Helen Keller/Viktoriya Gurash/Corina Heri, Do We Need an International Climate Court?, Heidelberg Journal of International Law/ZaöRV 2025/85 725–756, DOI 10.17104/0044-2348-2025-3-725.
- Helen Keller/Violetta Sefkow-Werner, Chapter 1: Proportionality: A Swiss Law Perspective, in: Nicola Biller-Adorno et al. (eds.), Proportionality: A Guiding Principle in Public Health Law, Ethics and Policy, Oxford 2025 p. 237–254.
- Helen Keller/Viktoriya Gurash, Chapter 2: Proportionality of the Covid-19 Measures: The European Court of Human Rights’ Approach, in: Nicola Biller-Adorno et al. (eds.), Proportionality: A Guiding Principle in Public Health Law, Ethics and Policy, Oxford 2025 p. 222–236.
- Helen Keller/Pranav Ganesan, The Use of Scientific Experts in Environmental Cases before the European Court of Human Rights, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 73/2024 997–1021 [https://doi:10.1017/S0020589324000356]
- Helen Keller, Nicole Lüthi, Violetta Sefkow-Werner, ‘Switzerland’ in: Anne von Aaken et al. (ed), Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe (Oxford 2024), 765–799.
- Helen Keller, Viktoriya Gurash, ‘Expanding NGOs’ Standing: Climate Justice Through Access to the European Court of Human Rights’ (2023) JHRE 194.
- Helen Keller, ‘Selbstbestimmung und Fremdbestimmung in der liberalen Demokratie’ (2023) 82 VVDStRL 68.Helen Keller, Corina Heri, Myriam Christ, ‘50 Years of Women at the European Court of Human Rights: Success and Failures of the Council of Europe’s Gender Agenda’ in: Freya Baetens (ed), Identity on the International Bench (Oxford 2020), 177-203.
- Helen Keller, Sebastian Bates, ‘Article 18 ECHR in Historical Perspective and Contemporary Applications’ (2020) Human Rights Law Journal 2.
- Helen Keller, Myriam Christ, ‘Le rôle du juge national face aux requêtes individuelles’ (2020) l’Europe des droits et libertés/Europe of Rights and Liberties 17.
